Motorola Buys Into Multi-Touch
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Motorola has invested an undisclosed sum into Sensitive Object, a multi-touch company, in a move that could signal a new generation of interfaces for the troubled cell phone maker, according to InformationWeek.
Sensitive Object’s interface differs from today’s capacitive and older resistive touch screens by–get this–using software to analyze sound waves coming from the point of each touch. The idea is to create a more natural, acoustic-based interface that includes multi-touch, virtual controls, and other three-dimensional controls, the report said. (Here are a few graphic representations of what they’re talking about.)
Motorola’s handset arm looked left for dead earlier in the year, but seems to be resurgent thanks to the Droid and other Android-powered smart devices.
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